Climate change is not the only catastrophe the world has created for itself through selfish and irresponsible actions.

The members of the Taliban in Afghanistan had broken into prisons in the country after they entered Capital Kabul on August 15 and shot dead a number of prisoners including Abu Omar Khorasani, the head of Islamic State in South Asia while freeing tho

People are eagerly awaiting the day the country would be opened up for travelling sans restrictions. In this restricted environment....

In what appears to be a straw for the proverbial drowning man, the United States has clutched at a new defence alliance.....

The re-opening of wine stores caused quite a stir. Memes of what’s now been called ‘bar pokura (wine store cluster) have done the rounds.

We are now, most probably, on the last lap of more than a month-long period of quarantine curfew. During the past several weeks and months we have often focused on the rapidly-spreading COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant increase in the number of ne

Contracting COVID-19 has become a nightmare, so much so that people now resort to purchasing over-the-counter drugs,

Senior Lecturer in Soil Science in the Faculty of Agriculture at the Univerity of Peradeniya Dr.(Ms) Warsui Dandeniuya questions as to who is fooling whom in the import of Fertilizer claimed to be from seaweed.

On Wednesday, September 15, US President Joe Biden announced the US would be joining Australia and the UK in a trilateral....

How does one choose who to give space in a story and where to place those inputs? Questions that not every journalist....

The main Opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) continues to be accused of being weak and falling short of.....

After so many years of exploitation of customers by the telecommunication service providers and some unscrupulous elements in the guise of Value Added Services (VAS), The Telecommunication Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka

The world’s most powerful country, the United States remembered the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks last Saturday while Sri Lanka, supporting the remembrance, expressed solidarity with the US. Significantly, the truth that emerged from the pos

A huge number of NGOs and NPOs operate without any monitoring or supervision in Sri Lanka

What else could be a better illustration of Sri Lanka’s grim state of rule of law than this? The state minister of prisons and prisoner rehabilitation, Lohan Ratwatte storms the Anuradhapura prisons under influence of alcohol, su

UN expert, Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, explains how Big Powers manipulate Third World economies

When I received an email from the French Embassy in Sri Lanka that I have won the French spring festival photography contest titled ‘My island,’ my reaction was one of sheer disbelief. I’m not competition-oriented and this was only the second c

On or around September 6, 2021, the Magistrate’s Courts in Colombo Fort and Matale ordered the Director-General of National....

Elton John added spice to ‘Spice Girls’ singing…, ‘Overwear, underwear, anytime, anywhere’, the pop number that was released in Concept.....

The dairy co-operative federation in Jaffna, YARLCO, raised the price of fresh milk sold through its many outlets from Rs.100 to Rs.120 per....

On September 5, six Palestinian prisoners held captive in an Israeli maximum prison –the Gilboa prison - broke out in speculator....

Existing shortages of milk powder and certain other essential items have inconvenienced the public to the point that they are willing to buy products at any cost.

The University of Peradeniya is not an institution in a restricted environment, but an institute working for the benefit of mankind, whether in the field of education or in the advancement of science.

The whole Tamil politics seems to rely on making the government accountable to the human rights violations allegedly committed during the war between the armed forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). And the Tamil leaders have reposed

Deep and lasting peace is not just the absence of war but has many virtues and values. As the famous St. Ignatius of Loyola has put it, make me a channel of peace, where there is hatred let me bring love, where there is injury,

Whether elephants should be domesticated for cultural and religious purposes has been hotly debated over the recent....

A world without women may be a good title for a socio-fiction movie or book. But under Taliban rulers, Afghanistan has become a country....

When the Government security forces fought the Tiger rebels, the island’s citizens were united in throwing their weight behind helping....

Sri Lanka has lost eight leopards for 2021 and Wildlife conservationists fear whether the protected species is on a fast track towards extinction.